“弱者胜”——论赛博空间的一种权力逻辑

“The Weaker,the Winner”-A Logic of Power in Cyberspace

“空间”与“权力”始终是相伴相生的范畴。“弱者胜”是赛博空间中独特的权力逻辑,这一逻辑在当代中国的新媒体事件中被不断操演。基于对“强者”的标签式解读,对社会公共事件的二元化构造,以及对大量视觉符码的象征性运用,赛博空间先验地确证了“弱者”的合法性,而将“强者”被指认为需要遭贬抑与拒斥的“罪恶的化身”。究其实质,“弱者胜”是一种带有鲜明倾向性的阐释模式,它一方面根植于赛博空间的技术情境,另一方面又受到转型期社会-文化情境的深刻塑造。作为一种在地化的空间实践,“弱者胜”体现出诸多积极功效,亦暴露出一系列值得警醒的症候与缺失。

The two categories,“Space”and“Power”,co-exist with each other.“The weeker,the winner”is a unique logic of power in cyberspace,this logic has been performed repeatedly in new media events in present China.Based on the reading by the label of“the strong”,the dualistic construction of social public events,as well as the symbolic use of various visual codes,cyberspace presupposes the legitimacy of“the weaker”,and defines“the strong”as the very incarnation of evil that must be condemned and rejected.In essence,“the weaker,the winner”is an interpretation mode with strong tendencies.On the one hand,it is rooted in the technological situation of cyberspace,on the other hand,it is remarkably shaped by the social-cultural situation during the transformation period.As a spatial practice of localization,“the weaker,the winner”has shown many positive effects,but also exposes a series of alarming symptoms and deficiencies.